wise men. the wise men very likely if they are from petra, they introduced arabian horses 100 years before christmas. clearly would have rode that, not camels. a great special, a lot of fun. >> it's up on fox nation, you can get the appear or go to foxnation.com. merry christmas and happy new year. i'll see you in 2023. now here is "america reports." >> sandra: ukrainian president zelenskyy has arrived in washington, d.c., his visit to the white house. his first trip out of ukraines since russia invaded in february. they will discuss more aid. >> john: he will speak before a joint meeting of congress. in moments, speak to former u.s. ambassador, kurt volker, and

lindsey graham where aid to ukraine stands at this hour. >> the border is already broken, we already can't handle what's currently crossing right now. >> we don't have the resources to address the impacts that are happening with the illegal aliens. >> it's like out of a hollywood movie. national guardsmen putting up razor wire. >> completely unprepared, complete disaster and texas is left to pick up the pieces. >> sandra: border communities and officials sending a dire warning to the biden administration as the migrant crisis turns cities and towns into scenes that are usually seen in post apocalyptic movies and war zones. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington. title 42 expected to expire, not just yet. the justice department is admitting they need more time to deal with president biden's border crisis and the doj is requesting a delay in ending the

pandemic-era policy until at least after christmas. >> sandra: and we are seeing more and more scenes like this along the southern border. here is the texas national guard armed with rifles alongside a line of humvees as they try to stop migrants from entering el paso, and as much of the country braces for a brutal winter storm, migrants also struggling to stay warm. >> john: as we await title 42 and the flow of drugs across the border continues, the dea says it has seized more than 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl this year. >> sandra: we have complete coverage on all of this with tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn. she is standing by. >> john: william. >> sandra: and they say the fentanyl seizures are enough to kill every single american. >> remarkable to wrap your head

around. fentanyl is the deadliest and most addicting drug in history, full stop. two milligrams of fentanyl, a fraction of the size of a penny is considered a lethal dose. another way, if this one gram pack of sugar, sweet and low was filled with pure fentanyl, enough to kill 500 people. this year the dea seized a record over 50 million fake prescription pills, double last year, and 11,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. we visited the dea northeast drug lab this morning. forensic chemists say the chemical is the number one substance they handle every day, it's primarily in fake pills, counterfeit versions of popular oxycodone, percocet and xanax, but traces of fentanyl is found in virtually everything, including cocaine. the deadly fentanyl primarily originates in china but also in india, the blue lines represent fentanyl powder and production

equipment. the red lines, chemical ingredients. most goes to mexico where the sinaloa and new generation cartels are manufacturing fentanyl-laced pills smuggled every day and sold here in the u.s. >> the production labs are not being met with any resistance. they are operating with impunity in mexico. >> faces of fentanyl campaigns to honor the victims, number one cause of death for young americans. more than 107,000 americans died of drug overdoses most from the fentanyl poisonings. the dea says six out of every fake pills on the street has a lethal dose of fentanyl, deadliest it has ever been. >> sandra: devastating numbers and huge implications for the country. bryan, thank you.

john. >> john: devastating impact of fentanyl across the border, a huge toll on americans across the country. fox news recently caught up with a recovering addict about how he got hooked and what he did to get clean. william is live in los angeles with that story. >> we wanted to know what makes fentanyl so addictive, what is the high feel like, how do you get off it, and what can parents do. liam o'brien knows, he's been there. >> as soon as you ingest it, as soon as you smoke it, whatever, you don't get to choose what happens next. you are young, you feel invisible, you feel like it's your choice, but these drugs will sink their claws in to you and very quickly before you realize it will change into something out of control. >> liam o'brien spent $100 a day on fentanyl. >> i used my entire paycheck for drugs and for gas to go buy gas. >> fentanyl high is short, he says, but intense. >> it's immense, relaxation,

relief, you are warm, comfortable, whatever you have going on in your life, you don't really worry about it anymore, you are completely content. >> o'brien tried detox but he could not handle the pain. >> you feel you are going to die but you don't. it's like a full body flu and your bones are aching, hot, cold, sweating. >> days later he was using again. >> when you are so far addicted consequences don't matter. i fully knew at a point that i was going to die eventually, but i needed to get high so i chased it regardless. >> his mother vowed to throw him out if he did not find help, but getting clean is not easy. >> folks believe human beings are like cars, just drive through the car wash, that's not how it works. >> howard barker runs the sober living house that treated liam. >> prevention starts with the family. >> don't wait on getting your loved one into treatment, don't wait for the overdose or the incarceration, don't wait for the felony, the dui. when you have a loved one

struggling and you suspect they are hurting, get them help. >> he started in high school, and then detox and a sober living house. he's now been clean about three years. >> john: grabs you and does not want to let go. >> sandra: two tennessee senators have sent a letter to ice about learning of plans to start bussing adult migrants to their state as soon as this week. it comes after the white house slammed texas governor abbott for sending migrants north to blue sanctuary cities. marsha blackburn is demanding answers. hear it from you firsthand, senator. what are you demanding? >> trying to find out, can we stop this, and certainly are making every measure possible and trying to get this stopped. so is the governor, so is our

attorney general. secondly, we are trying to find out if they have vetted these individuals, have they given them the proper health screenings and tests. do they have notices to appear or are they just moving them away from the border. are any criminals in this group. do you have people that are on the terrorist watch list. in these groups, because we hear it will be bus loads of 50. we hear they will start this week. there will be at least two per week, but sandra, the problem is this. the administration has no plan for how to handle the ending of title 42. they have no plan. they are turning every state into a border state. every town into a border town. they are showing tremendous disrespect for the people of other states because they are saying you know we have to move them off of this border, we don't want people to see these thousands of people every day at

the border. let's put them on a bus, put them on a plane, let's get them somewhere else in the country, and let's transfer the cost of healthcare, food, shelter, education, all the social services that are needed by people that have been traumatized as they have been brought by these cartels to our southern border. >> john: senator, john roberts along with sandra. for the control room, call for number 2 here, seems to be a real double standard. you have the federal government on the one hand really ripping a strip off of governors abbott and ducey for bussing people to places like chicago and new york city, washington, d.c., yet the federal government is doing the same thing. remember what karine jean-pierre said about the governors of arizona and texas doing that. listen here. >> republican governors interfering in that process and using migrants as political

pawns is shameful, is reckless, and just plain wrong. >> john: is there a double standard here? >> of course there's a double standard. and bear in mind, places like d.c., chicago, new york city, had said we are sanctuary cities, we welcome having individuals come into our state and our city. tennessee is not a sanctuary state. our cities and towns are not sanctuary cities and towns, and they have said no, we want the border secure. this is what happens when you do not abide by the rule of law. when you do not secure your border. when you do not have a plan and it is unseemly that in this $1.7 trillion spending bill they want to pass today there is money for countries to secure their borders and have enhanced

border security but the money, there for the border patrol says you cannot use this on border security. you can use it for mitigation, but not for security. we have to secure our border. we are a sovereign nation. our citizenship means something, and for this administration to say ok, we are going to transfer this problem over to you, tennessee, and let you figure out how to handle this because this administration, the biden white house is proving to be inept when it comes to dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. >> sandra: certainly a big day, it is a wednesday before christmas, but a lot of news to take in, including ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will be addressing congress, $45 billion aid package for

ukraine. zelenskyy told soldiers we are grateful for u.s. support but it is not enough, a hint it is not enough. a growing number of republicans, folks in your party, senator, that are growing more and more skeptical about increasing our aid to ukraine in this moment. the wall street journal has been polling on this. where do you stand? >> yes. yeah, you know, sandra, there's a couple of things there. i'm one of those that would like to have some transparency and some accountability. the american people, tennesseans, all of us, we support the ukrainian people in their fight. i had recommended to the white house before russia went into ukraine that they began foreign military sales to ukraine. also it is important for the e.u. countries, it is important for nato, for those countries to step up and help ukraine. this is on their doorstep. we do not want to see russia or

those in the axis of evil, iran, china, north korea, get the upper hand, and it is important that ukraine have what they need but we have to have some accountability and some transparency on this. >> john: when you say, senator, it's important for ukraine to have what it needs, zelenskyy will come here hat in hand, asking for attack 'ems, rockets, and reaper drones to attack at much longer ranges. he believes he needs to do that to beat back russia. very sophisticated weapons the white house does not want to give ukraine. are you saying they should have those? >> i think it is important that we make certain that ukraine has what they need, but john, it is not the sole responsibility of the united states. you have nato, you have the e.u., it is important that people step up. the united states has already spent in the past year more than what ukraine spends on their

military in a year, and we just want to make certain that there is transparency and accountability on how these dollars are spent, on the timeline for when money is getting in there for these battles. >> sandra: we should be seeing the ukraine president and the u.s. president shortly. biden is set to greet zelenskyy when he arrives at the white house and they will sit down and later on zelenskyy will address congress. appreciate you joining us. happy holidays to you and yours. >> john: thanks, senator, merry christmas. we are going to have senator lindsey graham, he'll be talking to us in a little while, he supports the increased military spending in the united states, see where he stands on giving the extra sophistication level weapons to ukraine, and ambassador kurt volker as well. not many people know ukraine like he does.

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>> sandra: ukrainian president zelenskyy is in our nation's capitol, expected to arrive at the white house in the hour. top of the 2:00 eastern time hour, he's going to be meeting with president biden before addressing a joint meeting of congress later this evening. all of this as russia launches a mig 31 fighter jet, capable of carrying a hypersonic missile. nate, what happened with the russian fighter jet today? >> sandra, it appears it was a russian test of the air defense, it took off at a belarus site, we have not seen any reports of any retaliatory airstrikes from russia today, but the message was certainly heard from president putin. as for president zelenskyy about to meet president biden, he was

seen at a train station in poland, you see that he gets off the train, accompanied by security as well as the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, he gets into an suv before that flight to the united states. take a look at this next video. hours before this, zelenskyy was in a front line city in the east, he describes as a city in burnt ruins. if you remember yesterday, sandra, we reported about a gift that ukrainian soldiers gave zelenskyy, a signed ukrainian flag meant to be delivered to the united states congress, something he promised them he would do. it appearance those soldiers were aware of his travel plans. as for president putin, he is promising that russia will achieve its goals in ukraine. he says his military will continue getting stronger with more and more fighting experience and another nuclear threat today, listen to this, sandra. >> we will continue to maintain the combat readiness and improve

the combat readiness of the nuc nuclear triad. to maintain our sovereignty and territorial integrity. >> in the new military aid package, not only receive the patriot defense missile system, but also predecision guided bombs. president zelenskyy is expected to thank congress and pushing for more aid as the war drags on, sandra. >> sandra: nate foy, thank you very much. >> john: switching gears here, elon musk ready to step down as the head of twitter. if it was not for musk, americans would not have seen the twitter files or that the fbi paid over $3 million to suppress the hunter biden laptop story. what, if anything, can congress do it to stop from happening across all big tech platforms. katie pavlich, great to see you.

musk said i will resign as ceo as soon as i find someone foolish enough to take the job. after that, i'll just run the software and servers teams. may take some time to find someone that foolish. >> it proves he wants to be with the people doing the work of the software engineering and building the platform. in terms of finding someone in silicon valley, it's going to be difficult for him, considering his goal for the platform and the reason he spent $44 billion to purchase it, more free speech and transparency, and right leaning idea, and silicon valley is left leaning. the platform may not change much if he can find the right person. i think it will run more efficiently, already able to get more advertisers, maybe they will get twitter to be profitable. in addition to being more open to different ideas. >> john: we mentioned at the top, we have discovered the fbi

paid twitter $3.5 million in compensation for the time twitter employees spent basically doing the bidding of the fbi which ended up in stories that were true, like the hunter biden and laptop, and the new york post gets censored. >> we know this now, the big question he said the other day that other social media companies were also involved in getting paid to help censor information. let's not forget it's not just something that happened with the hunter biden laptop, there are emails between mark zuckerberg and dr. anthony fauci about suppressing the lab leak theory, facebook censored for a year, and then they thought maybe it could be true so they put the

story. and regulating big tech, but the big issue is government interacting with big tech to censor americans, use private companies to do something the government cannot do. so regulating money, to censor information they don't like, making sure that the fbi and dhs understand that they are not supposed to use private industry to take narratives off their platforms that are coming from americans. originally this was an idea about a disinformation from the outside of the country, right. but it has turned into censoring ideas from american political folks who have opinions that they don't like. >> john: and as to how widespread it is, it includes twitter, apple, met, a, which is facebook, google, microsoft, may be others as well. jim jordan has put all the companies on notice, the beginning of january looking for some explanations for all of them, and probably haul them

before his committee. >> certainly the information we have before warrants a deep investigation about how big tech was working with the government to censor conservative speech and speech they don't like from the government perspective. in terms of regulation on businesses, and private businesses, the government really has the authority, especially the congress, to regulate the executive branch, to regulate the fbi, dhs, other agencies abusing the power and using taxpayer funding to get rid of narratives they were helping to build. it comes to finding out what's going on, that's great. but the difficult time understanding big tech and how it works, the best thing they can do is regulate the government and they have the power to do that. >> john: not for the pun, but looks like birds of a feather. >> sandra: andp merry christmas

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>> john: weather and the flu, could be the nightmare before christmas. arctic blast expected to plunge parts of the country well into a deep freeze with snow, ice,

rain, and bone chilling temperatures all likely to disrupt travel plans for millions of people coast to coast trying to get back home to the holiday. and jonathan, how is it looking there, jonathan? >> hi there, john. not so bad here, but already some delays in the pacific northwest and because everything is interrelated as we go into the end of the week, we could expect delays affecting potentially millions of americans taking to the roads and the skies for the holidays. this comes as aaa forecasts 113 million americans will travel at least 50 miles from their homes for the winter holidays. a 3% increase over last year and approaching pre-pandemic levels. several major airlines, including delta, are preemptively waiving change fees through affected airports. >> it's important to make sure

that you are getting to the airport early. i know in past we have talked about getting there like two hours early. you may want to look at getting there three hours early. >> face masks remain optional for travelers following a court order last spring. however, some health experts recommend people wear them voluntarily because of recent increases in covid, flu, and rsv. >> mask protects against covid-19 but also the other respiratory viruses, and for people at high risk, or around high risk, it's important to go back to wearing masks in indoor spaces you are around other people. >> gas prices continue to drop. some good news there, the national average just over 3.10 a gallon, according to aaa. pay attention to the weather forecast, especially if you are in the midwest or great lakes regions could receive heavy amounts of snow over the next

couple of days. and back to air travel as far as the peak days, the tsa says the busiest days will be tomorrow, thursday, and also friday, december 30th. john, back to you. >> john: all right, days to avoid, i guess. jonathan, at jackson international airport. jonathan, thank you. sandra, you travelling for the holiday? >> sandra: just a little bit, just road travel, not flying, john. >> john: that could be treacherous. >> sandra: this is true, and i think we are all glued to our phones, and the fox weather app is helpful with that. >> john: it is. fox weather app is a great thing. continuing coverage, town into fox weather by downloading the app for free at foxweather.com, and if you are very fast, scan the qr code on the television screen. >> sandra: looks like a few people will have a white christmas, john. >> john: more than a few, more than a few.

get the shovels ready. >> if it's storming outside, stay inside bundled up nice and warm. >> situation at the border chaotic if 42 is lifted, then, oh, no, my gosh, what's going to happen then right behind my back yard because i am right behind or past it. >> i feel very unsafe for myself and my family. >> the food bank is experiencing multiple factors that are making it incredibly difficult to get this job done. >> sandra: with the pending expiration of title 42, bracing for more migrants to cross into the u.s. some are warning a roll back of the trump era policy would be economically detrimental, but they say the white house is just not listening. president and ceo of the united states business council, leading advocate for the 4.7 million

hispanic-owned businesses. weigh in on this moment. >> thank you for having me, i appreciate you guys giving american small business a voice as you guys know it's the small businesses in this country that create 70% of the new jobs, it's not the big corporations. and they advocate on behalf of 4.7 hispanic-owned firms in this country collectively contribute over $800 billion to the economy. obviously texas is a state that is ripe with hispanic-owned businesses and leaders and we see the issue here. we thought at the ushbc it was important to come down to where the situation is actually happening, the beast of the belly, the epicenter, and grab people who live here, americans, we had a local rancher, we had the head of the produce association, we had an elected judge, had a brand-new freshly minted member of congress, we

had a wonderful community activist. they all came together, male, female, hispanic, nonhispanic, republican, democrat, and they all had at least two things in common. they love south texas and they all see that this is a crisis. we all need help. we need washington, and our elected officials to come together and help us solve this crisis. >> sandra: is it fair to say then those hispanic business owners you are mentioning, while they are in favor of legal immigration in the country, they are warning of the consequences of this illegal migration that we are seeing and the extent to which we will see it once title 42 goes away? >> my goodness, they are screaming at the top of their lungs. they want the administration to pay attention. we would love to see the president come down here to where the situation is actually happening live and to speak to the americans who are here, paying taxes, raising children,

and hear from us. business does not work in a vacuum. everybody here is being impacted. educational system, medical system, certainly business, and even, you know, judicial system. everybody gets impacted. i think business has a role, i think we should have a voice and i appreciate you giving us this voice and allowing us this platform to reach out to the president, to reach out to congress and say you need to come down here, see what we are experiencing and what our christmas is looking like. >> sandra: let me ask you about the blow to businesses you are talking about here, that these hispanic business leaders are warning of as this continues. can you quantify that for us? i mean, what -- maybe that's hard to do, but give us some sense of what you are preparing for and what you are preparing these small businesses for as more and more come over that border. >> think about the situation that every american small business is faced with right now

and certainly hispanic businesses. we are dealing with a tsunami of issues. we are not done with the after effects of covid, still dealing with high inflation, interest rates going through the roof, we are still reeling from the effects of supply chains that are disrupted or decimated. all of that is still on our plate. on top of that, you've got this situation. it has become easier for an immigrant to come here and work illegally, enter the country illegally, work under the table, than it is to follow the proper path, get his or her papers, get everything in order, get an actual job and pay taxes. that's what we want, that's what we need. the produce organizations here, this is a rich fertile country of produce and vegetables and citrus. we need that labor. we can't get to it in its

current construct. >> sandra: ten seconds left. the president was asked, there is growing bipartisan calls for him to visit the border. i just heard you calling on the president to visit the border. he was asked about that by our own reporter, peter doocy, and he responded there are other things he needs to do right now, this is no the a priority. what is your response to that. >> it's disheartening. i'm a democrat, i voted for joe biden, i'm pleading for him to illustrate that he cares for the people of south texas. male, female, republican, democrat, every end of the spectrum, everybody agrees on one thing this. is a crisis, and we need attention from washington. we need action from our leaders. >> sandra: would you vote for him again? [laughter] >> we'll see, but i got to tell you the democrats are going to make a republican out of me. >> sandra: wow, a big statement, sir. thank you very much for coming on to talk about this. we appreciate it. i know those businesses

appreciate it. john. >> john: big statement indeed. less than 30 minutes away from ukrainian president zelenskyy's visit to the white house, his first trip out of ukraine since russia's invasion began. live when it happens. >> sandra: border cities not only impacted by crime, drugs, smuggling, and dropping land values. we will talk to one texas rancher who says no one wants to buy there because of all the crime. >> john: and a sweet story about the spirit of christmas. a bakery owner opening up his heart and his oven to help his community bake their christmas cakes. the honor of that bakery joins us live, coming up next. ♪♪

the holidays, with the cost of the heating so high in the u.k., many cannot afford to warm their homes, let alone bake their traditional christmas cakes this year. that's where one bakery owner stepped in. joining us now is ed hamilton truit, owner of the brickyard bakery in england. good to be with you as we approach christmas. in terms of how did you get the idea to do this story, you were talking with a woman in the community there who was lamenting to you the high cost of energy, and that's when the light bulb went on. >> that's absolutely right. thank you so much for having me on. yes, it was one of our customers who was -- who is quite upset because she traditionally made christmas cakes for lots of

members of her family, and she was very proud and happy to do it but with the energy costs she was really just struggling, the thought of having the oven on for 4 or 5 hours was pro prohibitive, we stepped in. >> sandra: you are paying high prices as well, i'm sure, not exempt from them because you are a bakery owner. what have the high prices been like for you, chef? >> our prices have been eye watering. increases have been absolutely massive. you know, more than doubled just to run the bread oven. used to cost me 1,000 pounds a month to run the big bread oven, now 2,000 pounds, over 2,000 pounds to run the bread oven. but if we can use that heat -- sorry. >> john: i'm sorry, what i really love about the story, you

had one woman say i can't afford to bake my christmas cakes because the cost of electricity to have the oven on and they require 4 or 5 hours in the oven to bake, you offered to do not just hers, but you put out a bulletin to the community to say anybody who has a christmas cake that they need to have baked, bring it in on the weekend, and we'll bake it for you. how many christmas cakes did you get? i saw a photograph, looked like you got a lot. >> yeah, it was a real surprise. i expected to do maybe a dozen, maybe a couple more, but we actually ended up doing more than 50 christmas cakes for people, just over three weekends. we would collect them in the van so people did not have to troll through the town with raw christmas cake, we collected them on the beginning of the weekend, baked them over the weekend, and then delivered them back again after the weekend. and it just -- our ovens are on anyway, i'm here working anyway,

so it was not a massive cost to me, but it made a big difference to a lot of people. >> sandra: that is an amazing story, uplifts us all, ed. so beautiful and generous of you. i wonder if there is any recipe sharing in the meantime. maybe you picked up some tips from those bringing their cakes in. >> they were very cagey about the recipes, that's the beauty, you see. because the recipes -- they all have their secrets, the secret ingredient that goes into that family christmas cake and there was no way they were telling me, so i just took them and baked them for them. >> john: ed, it's a tremendous thing you did for the community, and thank you for joining us for the story, we appreciate it. >> thank you very much, thank you. >> sandra: now i am solidly in the christmas spirit after that one. john, by the way, one of the hottest christmas gifts for kids this year, not something that you can wrap and put under the tree. cryptocurrency is on a lot of

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>> john: former president trump's tax returns are set to be made public after they voted to release the records. republicans blasting the move as politically motivated. mark meredith is here. what can we expect to learn, if anything, from the tax returns? >> probably learn a lot about the president's wealth and business dealings. house democrats say they plan to release them in a matter of days. but also released a report outlining a lot of what they have learned. report from the house, ways and means committee what he paid in federal income tax from 2015 to 2020. the amount varies quite a bit. $641,000 in 2015. but 2020, appeared he paid no federal income tax. while in office, he claimed he was under audit he was not able to release his tax returns and was not legally required to do so, but critics repeatedly accused him of trying to cover

up his true wealth. irs had a long standing policy from the 1970s to examine each president's taxes but did not happen until 2019, well into trump's first term. democrats want to do more to hold the irs requirement accountable. outgoing speaker nancy pelosi says they will move swiftly to advance the chairman's legislation requiring the irs conduct an annual audit of the president's finances. house republicans insist democrats are playing with fire. they fear the irs will be only further weaponized in the years to come. >> our worry is that this will launch a dangerous new era, a new political background for frankly politics is more divisive, more painful and i think more disheartening. >> we have reached out to former president trump's team but have not heard their reaction to the latest move. a lot of people are curious when the returns will come out. >> john: we'll wait for that and see what the reaction will be.

but the fact that a democratic committee is releasing these records gives some people the idea of politics. >> certainly. >> sandra: john, fox news alert as we anticipate president zelenskyy of ukraine's arrival at the white house. the shot is up, he's about a minute out from arriving there. he will meet with president biden before he and the president hold a press conference at the white house and then of course, john, this will culminate in an joint session of congress and address to the joint session of congress this evening. >> john: you are seeing the south portico, the red carpet out on the south lawn of the white house. visit coincides with getting the details of the latest package of aid to ukraine, $1.85 billion, which does include one patriot air defense battery and the munitions to go with it. also includes 8500 javelin anti-tank systems, 1600 stinger

surface to air missiles, man pads, 700 switch blade tactical unmanned drones, those are the drones used very effectively, basically a kamikaze drone, and h howitzers, attack 'ems, the longer range missiles, they are not in here nor are the gray eagle or reaper drones he's been asking for, that the president just believes that giving those to ukraine and the ability to actually strike inside russia would be unnecessarily provocative. >> sandra: quite a remarkable moment, live at the white house for his arrival there. zelenskyy has not left ukraine since russia launched this brutal invasion. that date was february 24th, so, 300 days into that invasion

ukraine, you are seeing ukraine suffer through these massive power outages, john, caused by russian strikes on civilian infrastructure there. zelenskyy, through the white house, has revealed his intent is only to be here in the united states for "a few short hours," but we know of course that involves a sit down with the president about to happen and we are told through the white house as well that this will be an in-depth strategic discussion about the war, military aid, and tightening sanctions before zelenskyy heads to the capitol tonight. >> john: and it takes place the same way that russian president vladimir putin met with his puppet president in belarus, and now there is activity in southern belarus near the border with ukraine that many people have taken as potential preparations for an invasion of ukraine from belarus. we don't know if vladimir putin

convinced lukashenko to join the fight or not, about you that would change the whole calculation. if ukraine was fighting in the east as it has been against russian forces and had to turn attention to the north, it already have been beefing up the defenses along the border to try to fend off an invasion from belarus. that may change the calculation of how the u.s. responds in terms of the supplies and munitions prepared to give to ukraine. >> congress is poised to pass the aid to ukraine as part of the 1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill, total u.s. assistance to over $100 billion, john, and the latest through the wall street journal, that republican voters are holding an increasingly skeptical view of additional aid to ukraine in a moment where zelenskyy is here most likely for that, to ask for more

assistance from the united states. >> john: and texas governor greg abbott says look, we are giving all this money to ukraine and giving it readily, and willingly, and yet in this new omnibus spending bill, massive 1.7 trillion bill, not a dime for border security. so abbott was suggesting every dollar we give ukraine we should give a dime to border states to defend their border. it's ironic in abbott and other people's ice, to beef up border security in jordan, egypt, oman, but nothing in terms of the southern border. we have had 2-2 minute warnings and both have been rescinded